Digg close to a $300 million sale? [Rumormonger] — Digg is close to announcing its sale to a major media player for $300 million to $400 million, according to sources close to the company, I hear. When I floated this rumor that Digg was up for sale, my friends scoffed: "When isn't Digg up for sale?"

Just Sell Digg Already, Jay — One thing that has become a certainly in our little tech world - a few months can't go by without rumors surfacing that a sale of Digg is imminent. CEO Jay Adelson and cofounder Kevin Rose are in a perpetual rumor cycle. The problem is, they seem to be the ones at fault for the rumors.

MLB rips off fans who bought DRM videos — Allan Wood (a baseball megafan who has written a book about Babe Ruth) purchased over $280 worth of digital downloads of baseball games from Major League Baseball, who have just turned off their DRM server, leaving him with no way to watch his videos.

If You Purchased MLB Game Downloads Before 2006, Your Discs/Files Are Now Useless; MLB Has Stolen Your $$$ And Claims "No Refunds" — Just bumping this to the top for awhile. — Great to see non-baseball sites like Boing Boing, Wired, Slashdot, Techdirt and others posting about this.

Apple Seeds Mac OS X 10.5.1 9B13 to Developers — As expected, Apple has started seeding Mac OS 10.5.1 to developers for testing. The latest seed carries a build number of 9B13 and offers a number of fixes. — Apple details a number of issues addressed in the seed.

AMAZON TO HOST RED HAT LINUX ONLINE — Update: I added a lot more detail about Red Hat's ambitions and other moves. — Red Hat on Wednesday announced a significant departure from its current business plan, saying its flagship Linux product will be available on Amazon.com's Elastic Computing Cloud online service.

AOL's New Plan: It's Not Working — Randy Falco is betting the entire AOL franchise on building up its advertising network. The Time Warner results released this morning show that the horse that the head of AOL is betting on is slowing down. — AOL sold $540 million in ads in the third quarter …

Once and for all, proof that Macs are cheaper than PCs — Let's put to rest the myth that an Apple computer will set you back more than a Windows PC. In fact, it'll cost you less. — It's time to buy an Apple computer. Indeed, it's been that time for the past five years, at least …

The Comcast Net Neutrality Controversy: A Discussion — On October 25, the Technology Liberation Front, a technology policy weblog, hosted an online discussion[1] concerning recent actions by Comcast Corporation to limit certain types of traffic on its network in order to manage demand.

A Story of Surveillance — Former Technician 'Turning In' AT&T Over NSA Program — His first inkling that something was amiss came in summer 2002 when he opened the door to admit a visitor from the National Security Agency to an office of AT&T in San Francisco. — "What the heck is the NSA doing here?"

Log Off and Get to Work — Turns out your bosses don't want you updating your social networking page at the office. — Web security firm Barracuda Networks polled 2,400 of its own customers and found that 50.2 percent block access to social networks MySpace and Facebook.